Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hoon
Participle: hooned
Gerund: hooning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hoon |
| you | hoon |
| he;she;it | hoons |
| we | hoon |
| you | hoon |
| they | hoon |
Perfect
| I | have hooned |
| you | have hooned |
| he;she;it | has hooned |
| we | have hooned |
| you | have hooned |
| they | have hooned |
Past
| I | hooned |
| you | hooned |
| he;she;it | hooned |
| we | hooned |
| you | hooned |
| they | hooned |
Pluperfect
| I | had hooned |
| you | had hooned |
| he;she;it | had hooned |
| we | had hooned |
| you | had hooned |
| they | had hooned |
Future
| I | will hoon |
| you | will hoon |
| he;she;it | will hoon |
| we | will hoon |
| you | will hoon |
| they | will hoon |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hooned |
| you | will have hooned |
| he;she;it | will have hooned |
| we | will have hooned |
| you | will have hooned |
| they | will have hooned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hoon |
| you | hoon |
| he;she;it | hoon |
| we | hoon |
| you | hoon |
| they | hoon |
Perfect
| I | have hooned |
| you | have hooned |
| he;she;it | have hooned |
| we | have hooned |
| you | have hooned |
| they | have hooned |
Imperfect
| I | hooned |
| you | hooned |
| he;she;it | hooned |
| we | hooned |
| you | hooned |
| they | hooned |
Pluperfect
| I | had hooned |
| you | had hooned |
| he;she;it | had hooned |
| we | had hooned |
| you | had hooned |
| they | had hooned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hoon |
| you | would hoon |
| he;she;it | would hoon |
| we | would hoon |
| you | would hoon |
| they | would hoon |
Perfect
| I | would have hooned |
| you | would have hooned |
| he;she;it | would have hooned |
| we | would have hooned |
| you | would have hooned |
| they | would have hooned |
Imperative
| you | hoon |
| we | Let's hoon |
| you | hoon |
Verbs conjugated like 'hoon'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hoon'
coon,
hood,
hoof,
hook,
hoop,
hoot,
horn,
moon,
noon,
boln,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.
Sample Sentences
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[…] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed. [2003, Western Australian Reports: Authorized Law Reports of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, volume 28, Sydney: Published for the Council of Law Reporting of Western Australia by Butterworths, →ISSN, page 249:]
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Cruising, hooning and street machining all involve the social use of public space where young people can exert agency by independently engaging with their surroundings. Young people use public space to meet their needs, and not always in the way a specific space was designed for. One example is that an industrial area may be used as a prime site for hooning and street racers to congregate because it is less frequently under the gaze of authorities. [2012, Rob White, “The Making, Shaking and Taking of Public Spaces”, in Carol Jones, Elaine Barclay, Rob [I.] Mawby, editors, The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:]
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Any Smokey in his Pig-pen within fifty kilometres had hooned up and down the streets towards the chase, sirens and tyres screaming, whether they could get into the actual pursuit or not, and all the criminals were glued to their TV's for the endless repeats of the demise of the gunmen in a mid-air ball of fire, […] [2015 November 20, Jim Ore, Crime is Everywhere (Solaris Saga; 4), Worcestershire: C. Bosley Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:]